GIRTH
MARROW

(2003)

 

Nearness is not closeness. While intimacy grows in both, nearness lacks the implication of togetherness in closeness. We began with a frank recognition of our nearness as artists and people We set out to be near each other with our current interests, ideas, movement, practices, and vulnerabilities. From this co-mingling and a direct intention to influence each other, we danced. We invited you to be near us. And you accepted. - Emily and Colin

 

"Where will they spit their minty froth? the drain sent me to Gober-land: north and west of this intersection is a pristine metal drain in a white wall. in winter your lips would stick to to it. also a waxy, sparsely hairy ("don't be jealous") 1/2 male 1/2 female (boogie!) torso in a plastic crate. the inside of emily's and colin's bodies sought the inside of the city. dampness meets dampness."


A selection from Kristin Van Loon's writing in watcher-reader. Watcher-reader is a project of Hijack - the choreographic collaboration of Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder

 

Created and performed by
Emily Johnson and Colin Rusch

Curated by
Sean Smuda at the Shoebox Gallery

Installation by
Jenny Schmid

 
 
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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